San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 00147. Text(s): Book of Vices and Virtues, Christmas carol. Description: ff. 116 - Bound, s. XVI, in English stamped calf with Oldham's roll HMc (5), recorded for 1539 and 1553, and with another unidentified roll; on both covers, the initials "T.M."; remains of 2 fore edge catches; rebacked. - Owners' notes in the book include: f. 113v, "Md. de i libr. rem. in cus. Egidie Tanner [?] de fabul. cantuar. in festo sancti Gregorii pape Anno domini M CCCC[?] lxii"; f. 116, now the pastedown, s. XV/XVI, "I. Tonk" (or "Touk"?); f. i verso, s. XVII, "Robertus Paynell de Grayes Inne Norfolciensis verus est dominus huius libri excellentissimi ultra omne pretium"; also on f. i verso, "Dec. 5th 1777. This curious MS was presented to Dr. Ducarel by Mr. Frank Smythies of Colchester." Armorial book plate of Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1713-85) on the front pastedown; his sale, Sotheby's, 3 April 1786, lot 1445 to Ingilby. Not identified in the descriptions of Ingilby manuscripts in HMC, Sixth Report, Appendix (1877) 352-95; sale of Lt. Col. Sir William Henry Ingilby, Bart. (1874-1950), Sotheby's, 21 October 1920, lot 23 to Maggs, Cat. 404 (1921) n. 23 with plate of f. 1. Acquired from Maggs by Henry E. Huntington in March 1924. The incorrect mention in De Ricci of a fifteenth century owner, Nicholas Leigh, is probably due to confusion with lot 105 of the Ingilby sale, a Livre des Vices et des Vertues, which had also belonged to Ducarel, and is now Oxford, Bod. Lib., Lyell 47. - C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). De Ricci, 59. Part 1: ff. 1-116 (f. 116 now back pastedown). Description: - Parchment - 189 x 268-271 mm - 1-14.

plus-circle Add Review

comment

Reviews